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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;messydesk, post: 3568157, member: 1765&quot;]Is this due to the change in platform from Wikispaces to our self-hosted Mediawiki+phpBB format or is it due to content?&nbsp; The content was migrated as is from the old wiki to the new one last August using a bunch of automated scripts I had to develop.&nbsp; There&#039;s a thread here about this that I posted at the time.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>The content and quality of the content is like that of any open wiki.&nbsp; Anyone can upload photos and change text.&nbsp; As a result, there can be some wrong information.&nbsp; This is often caught by other users, but sometimes it isn&#039;t.&nbsp; There&#039;s no requirement that an administrator review changes before they become available.&nbsp; If you have specific pages you&#039;d like reviewed, ask about them on the discussion forums.&nbsp; You could also let me know and I&#039;ll take a quick look.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure exactly what you mean by &quot;two distinct and clear errors.&quot;&nbsp; Are you referring to two things that cannot be on the same coin at the same time because they are from different dies?&nbsp; If so, then I agree that there&#039;s something that needs to be resolved there with either the VAMWorld page or the VAM listing itself.</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;Rarity&quot; is not a good search term for VAMs.&nbsp; The R-number is assigned exclusively by Leroy Van Allen at the time a VAM is first cataloged.&nbsp; It is an estimate based on how many coins could have been produced from the dies in that stage based on looking at one coin.&nbsp; The estimate methodology has also evolved over the past 50 years.&nbsp; Further, there is very little correlation between this number and the value or desirability of a VAM.&nbsp; The best way to navigate is to click on &quot;Peace VAMs by Date,&quot; which is about half-way down the navigation pane on the left.&nbsp; For searching, it can be useful to search for particular features on the wiki.&nbsp; Searching for &#039;&quot;1923-P&quot; spike shoulder&#039; (date and mint need to be in quotes because of the dash separating them) will bring up all 1923-P VAMs that mention a spike at the eagle&#039;s shoulder.&nbsp; You have to know some of the lingo to be able to do this effectively, but that comes quickly.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first thing to do is to post a photo on the VAMWorld discussion board that shows what you think is new.&nbsp; On Peace dollars, a crack below IN GOD, going down across the bust, and coming back up near TRV is very common and is not something listed as a separate VAM unless the crack is very strong.</p><p><br /></p><p>The only way to get a new VAM listed is by having Leroy Van Allen inspect it and agree to add it to the catalog.&nbsp; There is a link to <a href="http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/Guidelines_for_Die_Varieties" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://ec2-13-58-222-16.us-east-2.compute.amazonaws.com/wiki/Guidelines_for_Die_Varieties" rel="nofollow">Guidelines for Coin Submittal and Die Varieties</a> on the VAMWorld home page not to far down.</p><p><br /></p><p>Again, it&#039;s best to post photos to the VAMWorld discussion forum, because you will get a lot of people who know Peace dollar VAMs looking at them.&nbsp; You will have to sign up for an account and wait for the administrator (me) to approve it, which I usually do rather quickly.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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